Many of the themes raised Monday at IHS CERAWeek were reprised Tuesday, the second day of the conference. But Tuesday’s offerings were decidedly more global, and our oil editors here share some of their thoughts on what they saw and heard.

You can find news stories and tweets from Tuesday shared on @PlattsOil (including one tweet that we felt needed a retweet from @PlattsCoal). You can also read thoughts from our reporters on the first day here.

Are big baseload power providers in Texas destined to suffer the same fate as their counterparts in Germany?

The question arises because Texas is once again undergoing a surge of wind generation installations at a time when wholesale power prices are already on the floor, and zero pricing due to existing wind generation is prevalent.

Much has been made of the domestic light sweet crude flooding US markets, and we attempted to capture some key points about some of that oil in this infographic centered on one of Platts key price assessments: Light Houston Sweet. For a limited time, we’ll be sharing weekly LHS wraps in the Light Houston Sweet Analysis feature, and we’re also sharing the daily price assessment of Light Houston Sweet and how much it rose/fell on Twitter with the hashtag #PlattsLHS. Click on the infographic to see a larger version.

Want to dazzle party guests this holiday season with a data-backed argument that the US oil boom may have peaked? Well, the US Energy Information Administration has a report you should probably read.

Want to shut up that obnoxious blowhard who keeps using EIA data to support his argument that the glory days of US oil may have gone by? Want some government data of your own to defend your claim that we have yet to see the peak of US oil production?

We hadn’t written about the monthly EIA statistics on US oil supply and demand for a while because they’d gotten kind of dull. The big movements recorded month after month, particularly in product export growth and net import dependence, had fallen into a bit of a predictable range.

A few miles east of Texas State Highway 19, a conspicuous circle of valves, gauges and metal tanks sits in the middle of lush, green farm land. This property, owned by one family for almost two centuries, has become one of the latest stakes claimed by an industry that has already found great success with similar sites across Texas.

Behind the wheel of a bright red truck, on the way to town to see her grandchildren, Susan, the landowner, smiles and shakes her head.

“They say we live on an oil field,” she says. “I say we live on a ranch.”

This is our second installment of The Oil Big Five, where we ask Platts oil experts around the globe to outline five big trends or factors affecting the oil industry. We were glad to hear from you, our readers, on our first post, and we featured your top responses in our follow-up post. Be sure to leave us a comment and tell us what you think about our picks as well as what you see as the biggest influences in your part of the industry.

The US Energy Information Administration Tuesday released its monthly statistics for February. The data contained a few surprising numbers, reflecting the changing US petroleum landscape, and an unusually cold winter.